


Dessert Before Dinner

by SkysongMA



Category: Pacific Rim (2013)
Genre: M/M
Language: English
Status: Completed
Published: 2013-07-28
Updated: 2013-07-28
Packaged: 2017-12-21 13:57:35
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Chapters: 1
Words: 4,827
Publisher: archiveofourown.org
Story URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/901090
Author URL: https://archiveofourown.org/users/SkysongMA/pseuds/SkysongMA
Summary: <blockquote class="userstuff">
              <p>After closing the Breach, Hermann gets Newt out of the Shatterdome by promising him dinner. It's supposed to be a joke, but Drifting with someone makes everything complicated.</p>
            </blockquote>





	Dessert Before Dinner

**Author's Note:**

> Deliberately ignoring some aspects of canon, going with what came to mind after watching the movie instead of what I found out by poking around wikis and reading other fics.

Everywhere else, the Shatterdome was taken apart with the efficiency and precision one could only expect from the military, but the labs proceeded at a slower pace because only the scientists were allowed to touch their equipment. Hermann declared that no one would be allowed near the monstrous calculation that had allowed him to predict kaiju attacks, and Newt…

 

Well, Newt was a sap.

 

Hermann found him—not that he had to look for Newt, since the Drift had left both of them with a sense of each other like indicators blinking on a radar screen—sitting in the lab. Everything had been packed in boxes except for the section of the kaiju frontal lobe. As Hermann watched, the kaiju brain pressed a sucker to the glass. Newt covered it with his own, eyes filled with a mixture of horror and the kind of love usually reserved for fathers first laying eyes on their newborn child.

 

Hermann cleared his throat, both to break the silence and to banish the feeling of their minds trying to connect. Unlike the connection between Jaeger pilots, theirs went away in the face of distraction—probably because it had been made with faulty equipment. “You know, I’m a cripple, and I still packed up my work faster than you.”

 

Newt pulled his hand away from the glass, his ears turning red. Of course, when he turned to face Hermann, he swaggered, his thumbs hooked in his pockets and a cocky smirk plastered across his face. Hermann rolled his eyes. “Don’t call yourself a cripple. I’ve seen how you move with that cane. I’d bet on you in a race.”

 

Hermann shook his head. He sat down on one of the boxes lining his side—the one containing only sentimental objects, not anything of real worth. “‘Cripple’ is what my colleagues used to call me behind my back. I view the word with sentiment and with pride.” He rested his cane between his knees. “My body is far from exemplary, but none of those bastards could ever match my mind.”

 

Newt turned back to the kaiju brain. He sighed and knelt in front of the panel in front of the base, flipping it open.

 

“Don’t put away your baby for my sake,” said Hermann, waving one hand. “I’m not here to interrupt your mourning.”

 

Newt glanced at him, eyes narrowed. “I’m not in mourning. Weren’t you the one just arguing with the Marshal that the kaiju are _bound_ to find their way back here?”

 

“Not bound. They will. I have calculated it.” He waved the conversation away. “That’s not what I came here for. In the past week, you’ve spent more time in here than I have—maybe than I ever have. And I _slept_ here. You need to get out of the lab. Even better would be ‘out of the Shatterdome.’”

 

Newt opened his mouth to object, his face screwed up in irritation. Then he paused and took a look at Hermann’s face. Hermann dropped his eyes. “Wait wait wait.” He got up and walked around the table that divided the lab, though he didn’t actually step over the line to Hermann’s side. His lips curved in amusement. “Are you… asking me out?”

 

Hermann said nothing, his hands resting atop his cane.

 

“You are! You totally are!” He hooked his thumbs in his pockets, his kaiju melancholy forgotten. His smirk grew more self-satisfied, and he leaned against the table. “You can just say you think I’m hot. I saw it in your head.”

 

“I find you infuriating,” Hermann said, closing his eyes in an attempt to salvage his dignity. “But there isn’t any point in denying—my attraction, either. Nevertheless, the matter remains the same. You need to get out of here, and—you might as well go with me.”

 

Newt’s eyes flicked in the direction of the kaiju brain. He drummed his fingers on the table. Then he sighed. “No, you’re right. It’s been—weird. These last few days, I mean. We… we actually canceled the apocalypse. Who _does_ that? And now… we all have to figure out how to do normal person things again, at least for a while.” He glanced at Hermann, and then he started to chuckle.

 

“If you’re going to laugh at me, then I might as well leave.” Hermann got to his feet, hoping the awkwardness of the motion would disguise whatever disappointment showed on his face.

 

“No, don’t—” Newt’s voice was sincere. His smirk had turned into a softly amused smile. “It wasn’t that. I’m flattered. Really. Mr. High and Mighty Mathematics wants to maybe exchange some bodily fluids with me. That’s great. It’s just—” He laughed again. “ _You_. Telling me to get out of the lab. To do… normal people things. _God_.”

 

Hermann considered his cane. “…You’re right, you know.  I was just starting to live my life when the kaiju destroyed it. And the world we see now would have been impossible before the war. The countries of our world cannot return to complete economic and social separation anymore, not after we’ve finally seen that is possible to work together. All of the rules have been broken, and now we have to figure out what the new ones are.” He paused. “At least until the next kaiju attack.”

 

“You mean you haven’t already figured out when it’s going to be?” A comment like that usually would have made Hermann bristle, but it was… softer than usual, and Hermann began to wonder if this hadn’t been such a long shot after all.

 

He looked Newt in the face, attempting the sort of easy smile Newt was so good at. “I started the calculation the day after Gipsy Danger’s crew returned from the sea. Then I stopped. I decided that it was time to rule my own life instead of letting the kaiju dominate it. Perhaps… perhaps you could do the same?”

 

Newt leaned back on his heels. “ _Wellll…_ I guess so.” Even Hermann could tell his reluctance was exaggerated for effect. “Just for a while. But you’re paying.”

 

“I would never be so unsophisticated as to go dutch on a first date, Mr. Geizler. Give me a little credit.”

 

***

 

“I don’t know if this counts as you paying for dinner if it’s all on the Marshal’s tab anyway,” Newt announced, rubbing his chopsticks together even though they appeared to be made of kaiju bone instead of wood.

 

“Appreciate the intent, not the delivery service, Newton,” said Hermann, opening the bottle of wine. He held it over Newt’s glass, raising his eyebrows.

 

“Not very sophisticated ploy for my affections, _Hermann_ ,” said Newt, raising his eyebrows back. He hadn’t stopped smirking since they walked in the restaurant. It was almost starting to grow on Hermann. “Anyway, getting drunk doesn’t make me slutty. I’m a lightweight.”

 

Hermann didn’t remove the wine bottle. “I’m well aware. And under different circumstances, I would be happy to drink you under the table. However, we are not forced to endure the drudgery of military slop, so I would like to remember what this meal tastes like. This is _real_ food, Newton. The kind you can’t microwave. _And_ the kind you have wine with—as a palate cleanser, not as a method to muddle your mind.”

 

“Don’t diss my Hot Pockets, bro. Do you know how hard it’s been to find those since the company collapsed?” He glanced at the wine bottle and sighed. “I’ll have a glass, I guess. You shouldn’t have to carry me home—unless you want to.”

 

Hermann sniffed and filled Newt’s glass, then his own. “And for God’s sake, order local cuisine. I’m sure you’ll be returning to America soon enough, and I’m sure every major city will be lining up to give the biologist behind the death of the kaiju as much free pizza as he wants.”

 

“I don’t know how to pronounce any of this stuff.” Newt’s voice was half a whine. “Much less figure out what wouldn’t make me hurl.”

 

“Then I’ll order for you. I’ll keep it simple, but honestly. You should try something new. Perhaps something with vegetables in it.” Despite his irritated words, Hermann hid a smile behind the menu. Without the pressure of saving the world behind their arguments, they were actually enjoyable.

 

“I like green stuff. _On my pizza._ ” He put his chin on his hand. “Is it sexist for you to order for me if we’re the same gender?”

 

A touch of color appeared in Hermann’s cheeks. He knew exactly why Newt was so comfortable with situations like this, and Newt knew exactly why Hermann wasn’t. It made some things easier, but it also meant that Newt was much better at ruffling Hermann’s feathers than before. “No. It’s merely patronizing. And I would never argue that I’m not. You do, after all, focus on a discipline several steps removed from the purest science.”

 

“Here we go.” Newt shook his head. “You and your ‘pure mathematics.’ I can’t do that. I’d go crazy—and I’m pretty sure that’s what accounts for a lot of your personality.”

 

“Mathematics has driven many a good man mad. Isaac Newton was hardly sane, and look what he accomplished.” He paused. “Anyway, if I’m crazy enough to attempt a Drift with you, clearly I am not all there.”

 

“See, that’s what I like.” Newt set down his menu and leaned over the table, nearly knocking over his wine glass. Hermann caught it and set it a safe distance from Newt’s elbow without taking his eyes from Newt’s face. “You act like this spare, obsessed guy—but there _has_ to be a part of you that loves blood and guts. Getting your hands in shit.” Newton’s words came faster and faster as he continued, and he began gesturing with his hands as though he were dissecting an imaginary kaiju. “‘Cause that’s who I am. I _can’t_ divorce myself from the rest of the world. I have to just—get in there. Put my hands in stuff. Touch things. Get really dirty and gross and—”

                                                     

To Hermann’s complete shock, Newt looked up, then at his hands, and a blush spread across his face. He stopped talking and put his hands down. “That… got really bad.”

 

Hermann snorted and took a sip of his wine. “That’s what I like best about you—your complete social ineptitude. It simply amazes me how far you’ve gotten in life without an ounce of tact.”

 

“You’re talking about _my_ social ineptitude.” Newt was still blushing, but the smirk had returned. “You. King of the lab. Dude who never leaves. Dude who never _sleeps_. I mean—I can’t believe you left an equation alone. You can’t even stand it when somebody gives you an uneven number of peas!”

 

“It _does_ bother me,” said Hermann, choosing to ignore Newt’s teasing. “It’s like having a fly buzzing around my head all the time—although of course this fly is made of the balance between chaos and sense.”

 

Newt sipped his wine, made a face, and took another drink.  “So, all right—” He set the glass perilously close to the edge of the table. Hermann moved to next to the floral arrangment at the center of the table. Newt made bullet points on the table as he spoke. “Your equation has to be based on a lot of estimates, right? Like how many kaiju we actually took out in the blast. How many _important_ kaiju we took out—‘cause it doesn’t matter if we hit the drones or the workers. We need the goddamn _queens_. How large the kaiju dimension actually is—”

 

“ _That_ is not an estimate,” said Hermann, cutting him off.

 

The waitress returned, and Hermann held up a finger to Newt so that he could order (because he knew that Newt would continue his tirade instead of letting Hermann explain).  “A glass of  _yuanyang_ to start, please, for both of us,” said Hermann in Chinese. “ _Dau fu faa_ before the meal _,_ just one bowl,and some _char siu bao…_ You’re not allergic to shellfish, are you, Newt?”

 

“Aww, you called me Newt. And no. Shrimp is the shit.”

 

Hermann wrinkled his nose at the profanity and turned back to the waitress. “Some _har kau_ then, and… _siu yuk_ for the main dish, I should think. And _boh loh baau_ for dessert.”

 

The waitress nodded and left.

 

“What did you order?”

 

“I’ll tell you when it arrives. Be _patient_.”

 

“I’m really bad at that, though.”

 

“I know. That’s the point.” Newt stuck out his tongue. Hermann graciously ignored it. He produced a notebook and pen from the breast pocket of his jacket.

 

“Do you carry those with you _everywhere_?”

 

“Of course I do. I’m a mathematician.” He cleared his throat. “Now. Attend.” He sketched a diagram of the Breach and both universes. “What is so horrifyingly beautiful about the kaiju attacks is that it turned what was once theoretical speculation into hard scientific fact. And scientists exploring the impossible had already worked out most of the equations long before any monster emerged from the ocean. We _know_ the constraints on universes existing side-by-side. We _know_ what kind of science is necessary to connect one universe to another, and that gives us all sort of constraints on how these creatures exist and how they interact with their world.” He started writing out one of the equations involved, realized there was no way it would fit in the space beneath his diagram, and crossed it out with a neat, straight line.

 

“God, could you be any more anal?” The words were almost fond.

 

Hermann ignored them. “Therefore, due to all this work done by other people, I can calculate the size of the kaiju dimension quite easily. And thanks to the results of our Drift, I have a very good estimate of the size of their planet and their population.” He frowned, looking at the paper. “…Another reason I abandoned the calculation is because I hate to have to tell the Marshal that the mission that killed his son won’t truly be enough to eliminate the kaiju.”

 

“I’m pretty sure the Marshal already has a bead on that. He’s smarter than you’d think, especially for a military grunt.” Newt leaned back in his chair. “Y’know, if we keep talking about this, I’m just gonna get depressed.”

 

“Depressed at the thought of more kaiju? Did the Drift scramble your brains that much?”

 

“I hate having to _kill_ them. The uses we’ve discovered for their dead parts—imagine what we could do with a living kaiju!” But Newt shook his head. “No, I do not want to talk about work. I think I could recite your equation in my sleep sometimes.”

 

“You can’t. You always forget the negative signs.”

 

Newt made a face. “Look. This is a date, right?” He raised his eyebrows at Hermann. Hermann said nothing, taking a sip of wine to hide his expression. “Right. It’s a date. So let’s talk about date stuff.” Hermann still said nothing, positioning his wine glass at a perfect forty-five degree angle with respect to his placemat. “What’s your favorite color?”

 

Hermann closed his eyes for a moment, caught between amusement and irritation. “You’ve been inside my head. You’ve seen my darkest, most important memories—even if only a glimpse—and you’re asking me my favorite color?”

 

“Actually, I’d settle for finding out you know what color is at all.” Newt draped one arm over the back of the chair. “Beige doesn’t count.”

 

Hermann tipped his eyes to the ceiling, as though praying for patience. “It’s blue, if you must know. And you?”

 

“Red. As should be obvious from the tattoos.” Newt, wearing short sleeves despite the fact that they were out for a nice dinner, spread his arms to make the point. “Not that I’d expect you to know anything about ink.”

 

“I have a tattoo,” said Hermann. Newt goggled at him, but before he could speak, the waitress arrived with a large bowl of soup and two spoons. “This is _dau fu faa._ It’s good. Try it.” He took a spoonful of the broth to make a point.

 

Newt was still staring at him. “You. Have a tattoo.”

 

“You say that like it’s surprising.” Hermann tasted the soup and closed his eyes in pleasure. Part of that was because he knew he was torturing Newt. “Really, Newton, this is exquisite. At least take a taste. I ordered something sweet to start with because I thought you would like it best.”

 

“You. Mr. Button-up-fancy-dress-tie-clip guy. You.”

 

 Hermann nodded. “I can show you if you want proof.” Newt nodded, apparently still in shock. “Try the soup, and I’ll show you.”

 

Newt stuck out his tongue, but he dipped the second spoon in the soup and put it in his mouth. “…Yeah, okay, this is pretty good,” he mumbled around the spoon. “What is it?”

 

“Sweet tofu soup. It’s supposed to be a dessert, but as I said, I thought I would start us off easily.” The waitress returned, this time with an ornate tea pot and cups and saucers. She poured both of them cups. “This is just coffee and milk tea.”

 

Newt pulled the cup over, but he didn’t drink any. He set his spoon on the edge of his saucer and pointed at Hermann. “Tattoo. Now.”

 

Hermann unbuttoned his left shirt sleeve and rolled it up, revealing a tattoo in plain black ink over his bracelet of fortune.

 

Newt stood and leaned over the table, squinting at Hermann’s wrist. Hermann thought about scolding him for indecorous behavior and settled for attempting to write an equation to describe the way Newt’s hair parted—all strangely, with no sense to it, of course. Hermann doubted he knew what a hairbrush was.

 

Finally, Newt sat down, drumming his fingers on the table. “That’s the equation that governs a Turing machine, isn’t it? And that is definitely a home job.”

 

Hermann nodded, rebuttoning his sleeve. Newton reached across the table to stop him, still peering intently at the writing. “I did it myself,” said Hermann, resisting the urge to pull away. It was pleasant, and he’d only embarrass himself more if he tried to act like it wasn’t. Newt _loved_ to tease him for his inability to lie. Even though Newt wasn’t much better. He couldn’t keep a secret to save his life.

 

“Reeeeally?” Newt whistled and finally let go of Hermann’s wrist. Hermann resumed buttoning up his sleeve, resisting the urge to rub the places Newt had touched him. “I never would have plugged you for that type.” He shuddered. “God, I couldn’t do that. I passed out the first time I got a tattoo—I still can’t look, and I’ve got, like, ten of them.”

 

Hermann had a spoonful of soup to try and wash away the words that rose in them—but what was the point? Newton had been in his head. “It wasn’t because I liked it,” he said, resting his spoon on the edge of the bowl. “It was—penance.” Newt cocked an eyebrow—not in a challenge, just as a friendly question.  

 

Hermann bit his lip, but the story marched out anyway. “Did I ever tell you I was married?” Newt’s eyes immediately dropped to Hermann’s hand. “It was a long time ago, Newton. When  I was a different man. We went on vacation in Manila.”

 

Newt’s hand clenched on the table; he dropped it to his legs. “…I saw that,” he said softly. “In your head. Or maybe—I felt it. I didn’t really get what it meant until I thought about it.”

 

Hermann nodded, his mind in the past. That memory—Vanessa, standing on the beach and smiling at him in that way she had—had come back to him in the Drift, and it came to him now, nearly as strongly. He closed his eyes. “I went home, and I tried to go back to work, but it felt… empty. I kept asking myself what the point was, when these monsters were just going to destroy us all anyway. Why keep living if it was really just waiting to die?”

 

He had never spoken about this, and it was certainly obvious, and yet he didn’t care. Probably because Newt already knew. “Alan Turing was always a hero of mine, even when I was a child. I thought—if I was going to kill myself—I would do it the same way he did. An apple laced with cyanide. That’s what you saw.”

 

“Why didn’t you?” Hermann lifted his eyes, just for a moment, hoping that Newt would have a joke in his eyes so Hermann could snap at him and put things back to normal. But Newton’s eyes were… quiet. Far shrewder than Hermann would usually give him credit for. “Why didn’t you do that?”

 

“That’s the other reason.” Hermann brushed a hand through his hair, a half-smile crossing his face. “As I was gathering the supplies, news of another kaiju attack broke. I just stopped and watched the attack, over and over and over, and I couldn’t figure out why—something was bothering me, but I couldn’t name it. Then I thought again of the other kaiju attacks, and I realized there was a pattern.” He rubbed the wrist with the tattoo, absently. “The kaiju were coming in waves, in some kind of twisted exponential pattern, and no one else seemed to _know_. And I started thinking… did I want my wife and child to be part of an extinction, or part of the honored dead?”

 

He swallowed. The table blurred, and he brushed at his eyes. He was almost self-conscious, but Newton had already seen all of this, so it didn’t matter. He cleared his throat. “So I got back to work. I threw myself into it, and when the feeling finally passed, I gave myself the tattoo as a reminder that I don’t get to give up. Since I lived, even like this,” he gestured at the cane resting on the side of the table, “it was for a reason, and I had to live up to my potential.”

 

“For the record—” Newton cleared his throat. “I’m glad you didn’t.” He put his hand on the table and edged it over to Hermann’s, as though waiting for him to move away. Hermann just smiled faintly, still half-lost in the memory, and turned his hand palm-up so Newton could clasp it.

 

***

 

The main dish arrived, and any serious conversation was lost in Newton cautiously exploring the food—shrimp and pork dumplings, as well as five-layer roast pork. Hermann was glad of it.

 

“I suppose it was all right that you picked the food,” Newton said, around a mouthful of shrimp dumpling.

 

“I told you.” Hermann hadn’t eaten much—the memories had driven away any real hunger, but he was glad to have something sophisticated to take back to base with him. “Unlike some people I could mention, I happen to understand that the only benefit of being dragged around behind the military is that one gets to sample exotic cuisine.”

 

“I still stand by my Hot Pockets.”

 

***

 

Dessert arrived. Newt eyed it suspiciously, as he had everything else to come to the table. “It’s _good_ ,” said Hermann, picking one up. Despite his dulled appetite, he couldn’t resist feeding his sweet tooth. “Just trust me.”

 

“What is it?” Newt said, picking one up and setting it down just as quickly. “I don’t trust food I can’t see into.” Hermann opened his mouth. “ _Except_ Hot Pockets because they are filled with the jizz of sweet baby Jesus himself.”

 

Hermann closed his eyes for a moment, caught between wanting to laugh and wanting to call Newt out for being obscene. “There’s nothing in it.” He picked one up and held it across the table, one eyebrow arched in a challenge.

 

Newt frowned and snatched the bun from Hermann’s fingers. He took a cautious bite, and his eyebrows lifted. “…It’s sweet.”

 

“It’s called a pineapple bun,” Hermann replied, taking one for himself.

 

Newt ate six.

 

***

 

They took a taxi back to the coast. Newt was silent for the whole drive, his eyes fixed out the windows on the lights of the city. Hermann wondered if he’d gone about it all wrong. He rubbed his tattoo, hidden under fabric, but on the boat ride back to the Shatterdome he felt Newt’s mind brushing against his the way the waves brushed against the side of the boat.

 

***

 

Back at the Shatterdome, they rode the elevator to the crew’s quarters with quiet hanging between them like a sheer curtain. When they arrived, Hermann turned to Newt. “I’ve never heard you silent for so long. I am actually beginning to worry.” It came out more vulnerable than he meant—maybe because the pieces of his own story were still lying between them like a broken block tower.

 

Newt blinkd like a man coming out of a dream—or maybe the Drift—and a surprised, embarrassed smile came over his face.  “No, I was just—I was thinking, that’s all. About what you said. That’s why I got into it, you know.”

 

“You know, Newton, it takes special equipment for me to be able to read your mind, and I’d rather not go through that again.” Hermann’s voice was very dry, but he was honestly curious what had Newt so serious.

 

Newt snorted. “You saw it in my head. Don’t bullshit me.” There was a spark in his eyes, but he remained remarkably still, and his gaze did not move from Hermann’s. “Yeah, I grew up in the Midwest. Yeah, I picked this shit for myself—I could have stayed at home and never had to see a kaiju in my life. But when I got into MIT—everybody I met there had a kaiju story. Kaijus killed their parents. Kaijus killed their siblings. Kaijus killed their lovers. And I thought—there’s got to be a way to stop this. There’s got to be a way to _understand_ them.” He paused. “Then I actually started studying kaiju seriously, and I realized they were cool as hell. But that’s what started it. I wanted to get even with those fuckers for hurting the people I cared about.”

 

“The kaiju took a lot of things,” said Hermann at last, “but they could never take that.”

 

Newt nodded. He took a step toward Hermann, still with that oddly focused look in his eyes. “And I was quiet because I felt like an asshole. I mean, I _knew_ you had to have a story like that. You’re not from the coast, but you’re here, and you have—that,” he pointed at the cane, and Hermann made a face, and Newt shrugged in a way that was not at all apologetic. “And yet I never thought to ask. I never thought of you as anything but someone who got in my way. Not in all the years we worked together. Not until you said you would Drift with me.” He sighed. “Yeah. I’m kind of the biggest asshole in the whole world.”

 

“That you are,” said Hermann, smiling with a surprising amount of ease. Newt started to frown, but Hermann reached across and patted his cheek. “It’s all right. It means we make a matched set.”

 

Newt snorted and took Hermann’s hand before it could fall back to his side. “So, you know, you never really answered my question before.” Hermann raised his eyebrows. “About whether or not you were asking me out.”

 

Hermann rolled his eyes back to the ceiling, although he knew it did no good to try and fight the color coming into his cheeks. “I don’t like putting it that way,” he said at last. “It makes us sound like teenagers. I brought you away from the lab for a nice dinner. And it can be… more than that. If you wanted.”

 

“Oh, for crying out loud.” Newt fisted one hand in Hermann’s cardigan and pulled him close. Newt kissed him, and Hermann’s eyes drifted shut so he could focus on the sensation. He could feel Newt’s mind pushing back, like an extra warmth on top of the heat from Newt’s body.

 

He hadn’t expected Newt to be so— _nice_ about it.

 

Apparently, Newt heard that part. Or sensed it. However that worked. He kept his mouth a breath away from Hermann’s as he spoke. “I never thought of you like a person. Then we Drifted, and I realized that was a goddamn shame. You are so much more than I ever gave you credit for, and I want—” Newt kissed him again, more lingering this time.

 

“Didn’t your mother ever teach you to finish your sentences?” Hermann didn’t bother to try and sound irritated; he had never felt more content in his life.

 

Newt blew a raspberry. “I _want_ ,” he said, enunciating each word, “to make up for that. With you. Fair?”

 

“Fair,” Hermann replied, and kissed Newt back.


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